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He wa,; born in Massachusetts hut conceived, .:1S he is careful to remind the home folks, in Oregon. OnL of his grandfathers was S.:tmuel \\T. McCall, ten times a congressman and three times governor of Massachusetts. His other grand- father, Thomas W. Lawson, was an enormously wealthy husinessman and a moderately muckraking writer (he once paid thirty thousand dollars to have a carnation named after him), who owned a thousand-acre estate on the South Shore of Massachusetts- a stretch of littoral that thE: Gover- nor's eight} -five-year-old mother, who I llloved to Oregon as a twenty-two- year-old bride, considers, with West I Coast vagueness, to be part of Cape Cod. Before he went into politics, Y1c- CalJ was a jou rnahst and television comlllentator in Portland, where he called himself after hoth grandfathers: La wson McCall He ran for Congress, élnd lost, in 1954. He was elected Ore- gon's secretary of state-the second- highest-ranking job, inasmuch as the state has no lieutenant governor-in 1964. He was first elected governor in 1966, and since state law pro- hibits more than two consecutive terms, he is now a lame duck. On going into politIcs, he began calling him,;elf Tom Not Thom- as-just plain Tom. He is noto- rious for both his informa]itv and his candor. His public utterances are notably slangy; speculating not long ago on the energy situation in the Far East, he declared, "The People's Re- public [of China J will slurp up all the oil in Indonesia." :\1cCall writes most of his own stuff, but for a while, to lend him a literary hand, he had an avant-garde poet as a speechwriting as- sistant. rrhe pOet once inserted a gen- erous hunk of the libretto of "HaIr" into an address the Governor was giv- ing to some thirty-third-degree Masons. "M y talk was quite well received," the Governor told me. "Fortunately the excerpt I used was one of the prettier parts of the show, and, besides, I don't FEßRVARY 2. 5, I 9 7 believe many members of that particu- Ilr audience were acquainted with the production." McCall's daily lllorning conferences with his staff are open to the press (which once watched him de- \ote half an hour to wondering wheth- er a solitary welfare recipient's tele- phone should be removed; the Gover- nor solved the problenl by taking up a collection in the room to pay the bill), and so, occasionally to the dismay of the other principals, are many of the meeÓng" he has with lobbyi,;t,; and im- portuning caller,;. Indeed, among the bills passed bv the quixotic state legisla- tu re in 1 973 was one specif} ing that all gatherings of state officials at which a decision could theoretIcallY' be at rived at-a cocktail party, say, or reception, with a majority of a legislative body in the room-mllst be open to the press. These days, when some state of- fici'll,; make conference calls to far-flung deputies, they invite reporters to lis- ten in on the conversation, and for the benefit of those who can't èavesdrop they provIde tapes. \Vhen, in the sum- mer of 1973, the Governor had cancer surgery, he insisted that the newspapers be allowed to pubhsh starkly clinical bulletins on his condition. After he re- covered, he wrote a Sunday-newspaper piece entitled "M} Head-On Confron- tation with Cancer," illustrated with a diagram of the prostate. It is one of McCall's homespun traIts to keep telling people that whIle they are welcome to visit Oregon, he would just as soon they settled elsewhere. To his professed chagrin, his cam paign has backfired; perhaps because of the con- siderable attention to Oregon that he has generated, the state's population has been increasing at a far greater clip than that of eithe r Cali- fornia or \Vashington. He lum- self had no hand in distributing a batch of inhospitable "un- greeting cards," but he has ac- quiesced in his staff's doing so. Most of these cards stress the fact that it normally rains hard in Oregon "Oregonians never water their lawns- they simply drain them," says one, and another says "People in Oregon don't . h . I f " tan 1n t e summertIme-t lev rust Still 'lnother gOes "Tom Lawson Mc- Call, Governor, on behalf of the citi- zens of the Great State of Oregon, cordially invites you to visit \Vashing- ton or California or Idaho or Nevada or .Lt\fghanistan." All thIS, of course, is tongue-in-cheek, but McCal] is per- fectly serious about preserving Ore- gon's rohust natural environment. He has been an environmentalist from way back. In 1937, fresh out of